I have reached new heights of geekiness. Why? Because I am now on the first page of Google when you search for Amelie. :D Yay! I'd been stuck in 11th place (top of the second page) for ages but now I am 10th (including repeated results - I think I'm 7th without). Note that this is on Google.com - I'm still 11th on Google.co.uk. I'm on the first page for most other Google TLDs though. Wonder why Google UK is being so slow to update? Hmph.

Oh yes, excuse the mess - I'm in the middle of having my account moved over to another server. WP has been bouncing up and down all morning and then for some reason all sites on the server were showing up as a client's. Errr, right.

In other highly interesting news, CG was hacked yesterday. This marks the third site in 5 days that I've seen hacked. A couple of the CG staff have been having their sites repeatedly attacked and I have to wonder what on earth they have done to deserve this. Hackers (or "script kiddies" as these people normally tend to be) and spammers earn zero in terms of respect from me. Especially those who lie about stuff they've found in order to make themselves look good and others look bad (thanks for ruining my reputation, kthxihateyoubye). Wow so you've found your way into something that isn't yours. What are you going to do, tell the site owner? No, of course not. You're going to delete all their files, replace them with stupid crap like "H4X0Rr3D bY 1337 kR0o 2 ThOuzAnd SiXxX : mC HaX / HakKa 2k / PeAc3 2 ALL n0 waR", then take some screenshots and plug yourself on Zone H. That's really mature of you. *Rolls eyes*

Anyway. I was going to say that I think WP is a problem and that hackers are finding their way in through there somehow. I'm not sure how, but as soon as I've finished my custom blog script, I am getting rid of WP and replacing it. Hmph.
This post had better not disappear as soon as I've posted it... Bah to nameserver propagation and all that >:(

Edit: Hmph. Since writing this post, Google's decided I'm back to 11th on Google.com and 12th on Google.co.uk. Wah :( Or not! Google is odd.

I rejigged my error pages and site access rules a bit. If you find yourself locked out from any page on this site, let me know - apparently lots of people were being blocked for no reason a few days ago.

The reason I think most of this is happening is because people have very strict firewalls and adblocking software that blocks HTTP referrer headers. Most of my site relies on the referrer being sent (especially for images), so please check any programs you might have for such settings. I know for a fact that ZoneAlarm Pro and Norton Personal Firewall/Norton Internet Security love to block a load of stuff thinking it's ads, or that your privacy will be breached. Rest assured that there are no ads on this site and I'm not about to spam you or steal your personal information. I better things to do, to be honest.

I've got most of my computer back now, by the way. Still upset at losing over 500 photos though - nothing could bring them back. Karl very kindly lent me a file recovery program (recovers deleted files off a drive), but unfortunately that couldn't get them back either :( Oh well.

Oh, and I know why Windows crashed the other day - because of Norton AntiVirus. Seriously, I have been screwed over too many times by that program. I was into the 7th month of my 4th version of the thing - all previous 3 versions having either crashed Windows/my computer or simply stopped working. One version (Norton Internet Security 2005 - DO NOT GO NEAR NIS, IT IS SUCH A BAD PRODUCT!) told me one day that I needed to buy 106 years' worth of subscriptions because it decided that it had expired in 1899. No amount of reinstalling would fix that, and Symantec, creators of the software were as unhelpful as usual, claiming they no longer supported the software and that I had to purchase the 2006 version. Let me tell you that this happened every time - I contacted Symantec saying something had gone wrong with a product I bought from them and they told me they didn't support it any more and that I had to buy the next version. RARGH! Anyway, I'm sick of them. Jem's been telling me to get rid of that stupid program for ages now and I've finally listened and gone for a better (and free!) solution that is so far working out great. Yah boo to you, Symantec. Greedy money-guzzlers... I could rant about them for ages, I really could.

Hmmm, how ironic that I titled this "just quickly" when this is the longest entry I've written for a while. :P

Edit: Is anyone else getting errors when they try to post a comment and/or manage their comment subscriptions? I get it on and off and I'm trying to work out what's causing it. It says something like: duplicate column in table comment_subscribed enum('Y','N')... If you could let me know if and when you get it, that would be great. :)